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Viktor Orban #wingnut #conspiracy brusselstimes.com

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, on the offensive ahead of the spring 2026 parliamentary elections, vowed on Saturday to wipe out his political rivals, judges, the media and NGOs - "bedbugs" he claimed were fed by "corrupt" foreign funding

"After our big rally will come the big Easter clean-up, because the bedbugs have survived the winter," he told a crowd of several thousand supporters gathered in Budapest to mark the national Revolutionary Day

The nationalist leader wants to "dismantle the financial machine which, thanks to corrupt dollars, has bought politicians, judges, journalists and fake civil organisations"

"We will liquidate this army of shadows, protégés of Brussels working against their homeland,” he added, even though most of the media had been barred from attending the event

In the wake of the freezing of US humanitarian aid, Orban announced last month his intention to "wipe off the map" the international networks active in the central European country

In particular, the government plans to amend the constitution so that it can temporarily strip dual nationals of their nationality if they pose a threat to national security. One possible target is the 94-year-old billionaire philanthropist George Soros[…]
Since the victory of his ally Donald Trump in the United States, he has hardened his rhetoric, convinced that "the future belongs to patriots and independent nations", and not to the Brussels "empire"

As for the others, "hell" awaits them, he warned

Jehovah’s Witness organisation in Belgium #fundie brusselstimes.com

The Jehovah’s Witnesses in Belgium must pay a €12,000 fine for the systematic and “disturbing” exclusion of ex-members who have left the organisation, the Ghent correctional court ruled on Tuesday.

The court ruled that the non-profit association behind Jehovah’s Witnesses is guilty of inciting discrimination and hatred or violence against former members, reports the Belga news agency.

“The Jehovah’s Witnesses’ shunning policy cuts to the very core of relationships, and the victims suffer both physical and psychological consequences,” one of the lawyers of the civil parties said during the trial last month.

In 2015, an ex-member took the organisation to the Ghent public prosecutor’s office for slander and defamation, insults and violation of the discrimination law.
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Belgium’s Interfederal Equal Opportunities Centre Unia and some fifteen individuals had taken up civil action, with the victims’ lawyers emphasising the far-reaching consequences of the “shunning policy,” reports De Morgen.

“Jehovah’s Witnesses state that ex-members should be shunned like the plague,” said lawyer Pieter-Bram Lagae, who assists the ex-witness who started the case.

“He used to sit on the Jehovah’s Judicial Committee and help decide on exclusions, until he realised it was going too far,” Lagae said. “We act, for example, for a man whose wife is still a member, and he is ignored in his own home. Or a woman who has never seen her father since the exclusion.”